Savage In Limbo isn't as well-known or as oft-performed as the Oscar-winner's other plays. Probably because it cuts a little deeper and is more emotionally challenging; the last applying for both actors and audiences.
Prime: Orderly is the latest work by dancer-choreographer, Dean Walsh, based on two years' research into marine environments, a luxury afforded by his tenure as Dance Fellow with the Australia Council.
I well remember Zoe Carides from GP. It was a decent drama, insofar as it went, but a very modest examination of the abilities of the actor. Tarantula estimates them much better.
Mum's In is like a time-machine, peeling back the veneer of civilisation to reveal the beating heart of a city that has a well-earned reputation as a slut.
There are weak points when one looks critically through Moving Windows. But they can only really be seen close-up. Overall, one is impressed by taut & terrific performance, design, dance, lighting and music, amply informed by gentle wit.
The key piece I felt was missing from Falloutwas a motive. Why, exactly, were these four being held captive? They did not know, and perhaps I was supposed to share in their frustration, but ultimately, it left me feeling unsatisfied.
Donnelly is smart enough to leaven his heavy dough with a hearty dose of humour, which director, Rebecca Martin, takes every opportunity to exploit, while remaining ever mindful of the importance of the subject matter.
Last Thursday's performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Sydney Opera House belonged well and truly to the show's outstanding leading-lady - Emma Matthews.
A gifted embroider of words, Friel combines soft lyricism and hard meaning in his play, a tragical comical historical pastoral on a spree and spoiling for a spirited spar.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.